Hand - Different Truths

August 28, 2017
Payal Talreja
Crime, Politics, Religion

Hokey Godmen and the Mask of Celibacy

Self-styled guru and father-figure Huzoor Maharaj Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh ji, is the latest Godman, who simply put could not control his urges and felt that his status in...

August 25, 2017
Nilanjana Dey
Poem, Special Feature

Gajanana

Nilanjana retells the story of Ganesha, also known as Gajanana, in this poem, as part of the special feature, in Different Truths. From the vast cosmic consciousness An enormous...

July 21, 2017
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career

There are no Shortcuts to Success

Bangalore-based Preeyan, an HR professional, tells us what it takes to succeed. Read more to know the elusive mantra, in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths. In the...

July 15, 2017
Basudeb Chakraborti
Criticism

Gita Mehta: Exposing the Commodification of the Millennium-old Indian Values by the West

Gita Mehta’s fictional writings are a revolt against the Western way of looking at Indian life and culture. An important post-colonial Indian woman writer, she is dogma free to...

July 14, 2017
Shameena Abdurahiman
Fashion & Beauty, History & Culture

Sushruta, the Father of Plastic Surgery, was its Pioneer in Varanasi, India – I

Most historians agree that the first recorded account of reconstructive plastic surgery on the living is found in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts. These texts describe procedures to repair noses...

June 29, 2017
Samrudhi Dash
Poem

Petrichor Dreams

Women are different in many ways, yet bound to a web of patriarchy. They knit dreams and rise again like a valiant warrior after every fall. Here’s is a...

June 13, 2017
Shernaz Wadia
Opinion, Potpourri, Religion

Prayer: A Unifying Force

Shernaz dwells on the issue of prayers for all, theist, atheist, deist or agnostic. She eruditely reasons that prayer is synonymous with poetry, in the weekly column, exclusively in...

June 11, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Alone

An inward looking poem by Sarala, where she talks of loneliness and meeting the her creator, in Different Truths. Alone I walked throughout my life With no one to...

May 26, 2017
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career

What it takes to Keep Your Job: Documentation, Handle Escalations and Ignore Myths – III

In the third and final part of the series, ‘What it takes to Keep Your Job,’ Bangalore-based HR professional gives us invaluable tips. Read to know more, in...

May 25, 2017
Nilakshi Roy
Poem

Loving You

Here’s an intense love poem by Nilakshi, in Different Truths, that catalogues her love. Let me talk of love… Of Fossil fragrance Of rock-hard chest Of ponytailed haze...

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